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Euripides' play combines the myth of Dionysus's capture by pirates with the episode in Homer's Odyssey of Odysseus' time with the cyclops Polyphemus. [1] [6] [7] Into this scenario Euripides thrust Silenus and the satyrs, comic characters. [8] [1] Theatre of Dionysus. The satyr play as a medium was generally understood as a "tragedy at play". [9]
Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
Articles relating to Polyphemus, his legends, and his depictions. He is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology , one of the Cyclopes described in Homer 's Odyssey . His name means "abounding in songs and legends", "many-voiced" or "very famous".
The title character is Polyphemus, who, according to Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Cyclopes and son of Poseidon. It tells the well-known story of Polyphemus's attempt to steal Galatea from Acis. In the original myth, Polyphemus eventually rolls a rock onto the lovers, killing Acis.
Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), another warrior-king, famed for his cunning, who is the main character of another (roughly equally ancient) epic, the Odyssey. Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), beloved companion of Achilles. Phoenix (Φοῖνιξ), an old Achaean warrior, greatly trusted by Achilles, who acts as mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon.
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In Cyclops, the fifth-century BC play by Euripides, a chorus of satyrs offers comic relief based on the encounter of Odysseus and Polyphemus. The third-century BC poet Callimachus makes the Hesiodic Cyclopes the assistants of smith-god Hephaestus , as does Virgil in the Latin epic Aeneid , where he seems to equate the Hesiodic and Homeric Cyclopes.
Philoxenus had his Polyphemus play the cithara, a professional lyre requiring great skill. The Cyclops playing such a sophisticated and fashionable instrument would have been quite a surprising juxtaposition for Philoxenus' audience, and perhaps signaled a competition between two genres of performance—the nome (a primitive music form of a ...